Updated 11.40am

A police sergeant is to face charges in connection with leaking information to criminal suspects.

Sources told Times of Malta that the sergeant is a woman working within the police's Drugs Squad. She is alleged to have given suspects in drug-related investigations information about upcoming police raids.

She was first arrested and questioned on Thursday and formally suspended on Friday.

In a statement on Saturday, the police said that a sergeant would be arraigned before Magistrate Victor Axiak at 1pm that day, and charged with providing information to third parties. 

“The police corps will not tolerate abuse from anyone, including its own members,” the statement concluded.

 

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